10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

The April arrival of the Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, Second Edition was a supremely happy moment in a very difficult, sad month. A companion regional guide, Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Western North America was published in 1941; its fifth edition will be coming out in early September.

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North America America Hawaii Birds 223

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

So, I was very excited when I heard that Rick Wright was writing a book about sparrows, the first treatment of North American sparrows since 2001, possibly the first book about sparrows of North America, depending on your definition of that geographic area. They’re all birds of North America! Mexico border. Rick Wright agrees.

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North America Sparrows America United States 157

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The first is that the illustrations by Dale Dyer are based, and largely seem to be the same, as the illustrations for his previous guide Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama (co-authored with Andrew Vallely, PUP, 2018). Doing this work takes time! Not every bird.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 227

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2019

— but there is apparently an entire literature about women who adopt wild birds and devote substantial portions of their lives and psyches to those birds thereafter, often for years and, necessarily, to the point of obsession. As she has done for many years and with more than twenty species, she adopted a baby bird, a blue jay.

Ohio 149

Ohio Adoptable Emotional 2019 149

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2019

The blackpoll, “a bird with a body just a little larger than your thumb,” doesn’t stop until South America. Houghtton Mifflin Harcourt (April 2, 2019). As Kaufman says: “Four nights and three days in the air. Eighty hours of flying. More than two thousand miles. Hundreds of thousands of beats of its small wings.

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Ohio Bats Legislature Ducks 201